classical music inspired by poetry and literature

0:00:00 Gluck (arr. Siloti) - Orfeo ed Euridice: Melody Vadim Chaimovich, piano Inspired by: the myth of Orpheus (Virgil/Ovid) 0:04:04 Fauré - 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve Massimiliano Martinelli, cello Jonathan Floril, piano Inspired by: an anonymous Italian poem freely adapted into French by Romain Bussine 0:07:28 Luke Faulkner - The Road to Casterbridge Luke Faulkner, piano Özgür Kaya, cello Inspired by: the novels of Thomas Hardy Alexander Litvinovsky - Pelléas and Mélisande 0:10:37 VI. Ballade. Les trois sœurs aveugles (Ballad. Three blind sisters) 0:13:47 X. Les ombres dans le jardin (Shadows in the garden) 0:16:52 IX. Mélisande au rouet (Mélisande at the spinning wheel) 0:19:54 I. Ils étaient comme des enfants (They were like children) Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov Inspired by: the Symbolist play by Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck 0:23:59 Tchaikovsky - The Snow Maiden, Op. 12 “Snégourotchka”: X. Melodrama Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov Inspired by: the Russian fairy tale of the same name Alexander Litvinovsky - Le Grand Cahier 0:28:22 I. La Forêt et la Rivière 0:31:10 IV. Nos Etudes 0:33:55 VI. Le Bain 0:36:08 VII. Les Pommes de Grand-Mère 0:38:26 VIII. Théâtre 0:41:08 IX. Accusations Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov Inspired by: the 1986 novel of the same name by Hungarian-Swiss writer Agota Kristof 0:44:13 Schubert - Erlkönig (The Elf King), D. 328 Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov Inspired by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem of the same name Alexander Litvinovsky - Pelléas and Mélisande 0:47:51 III. Galliard. Navire dans la tempête (Galliard. Ship in a storm) 0:50:30 VIII. Menuet. Sous la fenêtre de la tour (Minuet. Under the tower window) Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov 0:53:53 Liszt (arr. Skalmer) - Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3, Oh Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst Fulvia Mancini, cello Jonathan Floril, piano Inspired by: Ferdinand Freiligrath’s poem of the same name 0:58:18 Rachel (arr. Biffi) - A Diosa - No potho reposare Pierpaola Porqueddu Inspired by: Salvatore Sini’s poem of the same name, penned just before he departed to fight in WWI 1:03:42 Brahms - 4 Duets, Op. 61: No. 3, Phänomen (Love Hath Not Departed) Anna Ouspenskaya, FamTrio Inspired by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem of the same name 1:06:02 Debussy - Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de Lune Pierpaola Porqueddu Inspired by: Paul Verlaine’s poem of the same name 1:11:02 Schubert - Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 Luigi Magistrelli, Sumiko Hojo Inspired by: the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust 1:14:46 Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87: Oriental Dance 1:16:54 Prokofiev - 10 Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 97bis: No. 10, Adagio: The Prince and Cinderella Anna Ouspenskaya, Igor Zubkovsky Feinberg - 8 Romances after Pushkin, Op. 26 1:21:37 No. 3, Under the Blue Skies of Her Native Land 1:25:21 No. 5, Three Springs Dimitri Malignan, Elizaveta Agrafenina 1:27:47 Dvořák - Rusalka, Op. 114: “Song to the Moon” Musica Sancta Ensemble, Liran Mendel, Jovana Stosic, Elena Patsalidou Inspired by: the plot of the opera contains elements which also appear in The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and in Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and has been described as a “sad, modern fairy tale” 1:33:03 Dukas - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra, Peter Pejtsik Inspired by: a 1797 poem by Goethe 1:44:17 Mulè - La vendemmia, poema sinfonico Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini 1:53:41 Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 “Choral“: IV. Finale (Ode to Joy), Live Orquesta Reino de Aragón, Ricardo Casero, Coro Amici Musicae Inspired by: “An die Freude”, an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller